Is Technology All Good?

張貼日期：Jun 05, 2017 2:18:56 PM

Sylvie Leung

Since the introduction of science and technology, people's daily life has been changed greatly. There is no doubt that technology improve the quality of people’s life and help solve many problems. However, at the same time, technologies are bringing potential threat to people’s daily life and doing harm to interaction between people. In my opinion, technology is not all good.

First of all, technology can increase insecurity in people’s life. With the rapid development of science, technological crime arises, and seriously affects humans’ social life. For instance, when using computers, people always lack awareness of computer network security, and criminals often take advantage of vulnerabilities in cyber security to commit crimes through the use of computer technology. For example, some fraudsters will display a series of fake web page interfaces on victims’ computers. Once the victims are enticed to input their important information, they cheat money out of the victims easily through online banking transfers.

In addition, technology weakens people’s social bonds. Admittedly, hardware like computer enjoys popularity in the classroom. As a result, the acquisition of knowledge is more expedient and more interesting for pupils. Whereas, according to a survey conducted by Newsweek, an estimated 53% of students state that there is no need to listen to teachers in classes. In their opinion, they can grasp new knowledge by themselves through digital academic material. It seems that the interaction between teachers and students is weakened. Moreover, nowadays, many parents complain that children prefer playing the phones to chatting with family and relatives on family gatherings. Individuals just get too dependent on technology and neglect the people around them.

In a word, technologies are not all beneficial to people’s life, for they can damage safety of human lives as well as interpersonal communication. Facing development of technology, people should bear in mind that they should mot lose their own inventive mind and flexible body, for they are the source of creativity.